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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
84 vs 53
Hardware Fit
97 vs 72
Quality Score
79 vs 45

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen3.5:9b
MachineASUSMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285KApple M1 Max
Cores2410
RAM47 GB32 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) GraphicsApple M1 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec208.018.6
First chunk82 ms403 ms
TTFT1.3 s10.2 s
Load time1.5 s4.3 s
Memory usage9.6 GB9.1 GB
Memory %20%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
18/20
Memory
29/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
38/50
TTFT
4/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
6/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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